I cannot seem to find the best way to express this, both in terms of grammar and "correct sounding" feel to English/American readers (which I am not).
So, this is the scenario: the serum concentration of two peptides, peptide A and peptide B, is measured in a group of patients. The level of thes...

Apropos of other things, I've seen in the past week at least two rants by different people saying that UX and UI are totally different things, and in the course of their rants they come up with more and more subgenres, yet they don't actually ever say what those genres are comprised of.

I guess maybe my question should be revised to Is this usage of shut an archaic structure preserved only in this expression or is it commonly used in BrE? since it seems that there’s prevalence of all three forms in Ngrams.

@Cerberus This is one of those classic misuses in English that has become correct usage . . .

@Cerberus I edited that question. It’s probably way too scientific for ELU. But, I think the guy is well intentioned in asking it here, so I went out of my way to help him. And, I gave him an answer, too.

A guy walks into a roof top bar and mentions how windy it seems when you lean over the rail. One of the guys at the bar says, “It’s so windy that you can jump off the side and it blows you right back into the bar.” So, he demonstrates. Jumps over the side and blows right back into the bar. Does it 3 more times to prove his point. Then he tells the new guy, “Give it a try!!” The new guy runs over leaps into the air and splats onto the ground 30 stories below.

Top comment is "Wow, the flute part starting at 65 is SOOOO HARD" with 70 replies whining about that. Well, it's hard if you're a rank beginner, sure. But you can't call yourself a flutist if you can't play melodies in the third octave. Try Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie, the altissimo flute parts, if you want hard. And even those are fairly straightforward once you get them under your fingers. Geezis.

@Robusto oh I've read YouTube before. Don't think I will again. Had a very similar experience concerning a piano part.

There was that one track in Nintendo's recent Breath of the Wild game. Playing during the final battle, with very fast piano sixteenths that sounded very impressive for sure. Except of course that neither the composer (Manaka Kataoka) nor the pianist (my bad, don't even know the name) are morons, and the sixteenths are actually exceptionally easy to play. Mostly just arpeggios strung together.

But yeah there were a billion comments from Nintendo fanboys saying how impressive the piano part was and hard and fast and everything. They'd probably compare it to Horowitz playing Beethoven at quadruple tempo, except of course they couldn't because none of them had ever heard either name. That kind of discussion, you know.

So naturally I made the mistake of replying to just one of them, "Actually this is really easy on a piano. You'd know if you played the piano."

Well you can imagine the rest.

That was like a year ago maybe. I'm still getting replies once a week like.

The least inane of them all having been "I do play the piano. This is too fast for me." To which I replied, "well go practice, then".

The average reply being more like "you fucking suck moron". To which I replied "right on, I do suck. And yet I can play this no problem. So what do you expect from a professional pianist whom Nintendo picked out of all the pianists in the world to play the most central track in their most important flagship franchise."

And so on and so forth. You get the point.

If I may remind you, we're talking about a fucking arpeggiated chord here.

Specifically written by a stellar composer who plays the instrument herself to be idiomatic to said instrument.

@RegDwigнt I've been looking at this site. It's interesting, people post comments encrypted . . . Also, they have a way of hiding spoilers. Not sure how to do that in markup or if it's special to their site.